Nerds Become Cool in Geek-Girl
CREATED AND written by Sam Johnson (The Almighties, Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman) and illustrated by Carlos Granda (Grimm Fairy Tales, Charmed), Geek-Girl is a four issue mini-series published by British publisher Markosia.
In Geek-Girl we meet attractive, popular Maine college co-ed Ruby Kaye – a girl who is used to getting anything she wants. But when she overhears the resident college brainiac talking about the super-tech glasses he's invented she decides she wants them - and her whole world gets turned upside down! Readers are introduced to Ruby, flying around in a super-hero costume, looking for crime, chatting to her BFF Summer on her mobile phone, questioning if she's “doing it right;” because she's been at this a couple of nights now and nothing's happening. And then something does happen. Right in front of Ruby, Neon Girl – Maine's resident big-shot super-heroine – is blasted through a billboard by a mysterious new villain!
“Ass-kicker Neon Girl is taken off the map – and requiring a life-saving operation - by this extremely powerful, enigmatic woman, Lightning Storm, who seems to have come from nowhere,” said Johnson; “and Neon Girl wants to know what Ruby's going to do about it.” “A scared Ruby reveals how she got the glasses on a whim, how it was her friend Summer who made her a costume and came up with a superhero name for her – and how she doesn't really know what she's doing,” Johnson continued. “But this isn't a point of view the no-nonsense Neon Girl has any time for; her attitude is that 'Geek-Girl' has super powers and sure dresses like a superheroine, so she needs to step up and stop Lightning Storm!”.
While Ms. Kaye's trying to get her head around this, things have taken a hit in her social life; thanks to a glitch in the glasses' programming that's messed with her head and made her super-kultzy, the only evidence she's provided her “cooler-than-thou” clique of her powers has involved knocking drinks over them – alienating her from all but Summer. “So with a social life in tatters and a new status she doesn't really understand, Ruby has to try and take on an extremely dangerous force who's just hospitalised someone who's like a hundred times better at super-heroing than she is,” said Johnson , adding: “Let's see how that goes...” Geek-Girl #1 is out now from Markosia in regular, digital and variant editions, and available direct both at the Geek-Girl website and at Comixology.
